The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-07-30

Specially Compiled Tor the Toiler5 BY an Ad
vooate Man.
Coke q Co., coal barons Of Drifton,
will pay theiremployees every two weeks.
Hamburg, ahigh county. Is to have a
shoe factory. Thus fsr 100000 has been
Subscribed
Three hundred X. of l.. Assemblies
were organized in the United States during
the month Of June.
Organize, agitate and educate and dc
it we'll wipe out all pernicious Tendencies
and the future welfare Of the Knights Of
Labor organization is assured.
I'm lew months coke-making plants
will be scattered all along the Allegheny
mountains in Pennsylvania. A S1,0O0,00(
company has just been organized in Cam.
bria county.
The Lehlgh Valley Railroad is about
to adopt the ncandescent electric lamps tC
light its shops and yards ct South Esston
Oyer 500 incandescent and 40 arc light,
win be used.
The philadelphia and Reading Com
pany is putting all its train hands through
rigid examination as to their sight ant
hearing, together with other qualification.
necessary for the safe running of trains.
In the new steel plate mill of the Cata
sauqua Manufacturing Company, at Fern
dale, nine boilers will be used, aud eacl
win use separate stack. Each boiler viii
be sixty inches in diameter and twenty-five
feet long, and will contain two eighteeI
inch fiues.
"A toR-wheel freight engine is being
built at the Lehigh Valley shops at Wealth
erly. Its number is 4S9 and name 'eNev
Boston," Six engines, each te have nine
teen inch cylinders, are to be rebuilt at tn,
same shops. No. 1871 is now being rebuilt
The last new engine built at the shops il
the "Tomhicken," No. 43S.
Railroad builders are greatly encour
aged by Che favorable earnings of the pas
six months, and new projects involving tn
construction of 2O00 miles have recentl
come to light. Reports from 1o7 road
show an increase of 15 per cent for the frs
half of this year over the first half of las
year. Railroad building and shop labor ar
in demand everywhere.
The employees on the Catasauqua an,
Fogelsville Railroad were given the priv
lege of drawing their pay every two weeks
as per the new act of assembly, but the
declined the offer, being well satisfied witt
the old arrangements. This seems to be
strange procedure considering the fact tha
the two weeks pay law was passed for Tia
benefit OF the laboring classes.
The best solution Of the labor problem
is that which every man is able to make TO
himself. 1t may be briefly outlined thus
Unfagging industry patience, honesty an
sobriety. With the right sort of a wife,
man who observes all tlrese is bsund to be
come independent and will probably gro,
rich. Happiness and health is certain +
reign IN his home, and all his ways Will b
=. ways of pleasantness and his paths peace.
The order of Superintendent Lawlel
of the Schuylktll Division of the Readin
Railroad, prohibiting any of the emploYe
to drink liquor, whether on or off duty.
supplemented by an order that any ma
reported as having been seen taking drin
OF liquor or beer will be summarily dis
/ charged. The Superintendent says ths
there is no business that needs level-heade
men mole than railroadiug, for the safet
both of employees ana the travelling public
There is an unusual scarcity of wag,
workers at Fort Wayne, Ind. The bra:
foundry and machine works have asked IL
New York Commissioners Of Emmigratio
to send them second lot of City helper
for their forges. The Pennington machir
works Tuesday sent to Cincinnati FOR fifl
machinists. The road masters and supe
visors of railroads find their track wol
greatly embarrassed by the want of he'll
and the unusual amount of building al
street paving is making demands for lab'
which cannot be supplied
| The general situation of business at u
trade eenters is fully as favorable as cou
be expected during the midsummer pero
There has been no improvement in Il
price Of wool, and the market has bee
somewhat irregular. The iron trade h
been quite active, but there has been !
advance In prices. The export dsmaI
for wheat has been comparatively light du
ing the past week, anc prices declined fro
one to four cents per bushel IN the Chiea.
! and seabaard markets. Germ prices ha'
; remained firm, and some markets show
! slight advance over last weeks prices.